Epic and Mozilla want to make the Web a true platform for gaming, and they’re bringing the Unreal Engine 4 framework to Firefox to do it.

In the above video, Epic and Mozilla offer a sneak peak of Unreal 4 running in Firefox at “near-native speeds,” and they plan to show off the technology in full at next week’s GDC 2014.

Browser-based games have traditionally been the red-headed step children of the gaming world, but one game, for me at least, proved the Web is a platform that can deliver amazing games. Specifically, Card Hunter, the brilliant blend of CCGs and table-top RPGs by Blue Manchu, was among my favorite games of 2013.

The depth is already there, now it appears Mozilla and Epic want to deliver AAA-like visuals to Web gaming in 2014, as well, and the early results look promising.

]]>http://www.gamefront.com/epic-mozilla-partner-to-bring-unreal-engine-4-to-firefox/feed/1Firefox Creator Shows Off Tech Demo MMO Browserquesthttp://www.gamefront.com/firefox-creator-shows-off-tech-demo-mmo-browserquest/
http://www.gamefront.com/firefox-creator-shows-off-tech-demo-mmo-browserquest/#commentsThu, 29 Mar 2012 18:05:57 +0000Phil Hornshawhttp://www.gamefront.com/?p=159171You can check it out in most any browser on most any device.

Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox Web browser, has created a new technology called WebSockets that allows browsers maintain connections to remote servers. To show it off, the company whipped up a slightly thin but interesting browser-based MMO called Browserquest, and it’s actually pretty impressive. You can check it out right here.

Because it’s a tech demo, there’s not a lot going on in Browserquest, although it has a lush 16-bit art style and is full of NPCs with whom players can interact. It’s missing pretty much all story and there are a lot of other elements that have been left out, but the gist of the demo is this: with HTML 5, browsers can handle MMOs pretty handily.

The other cool thing about Browserquest is just how platform-agnostic it is. Since it’s based in HTML 5, just about everything can run Browserquest — not just PC browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer, but also mobile devices and whatever else can run a browser and handle HTML 5. That opens up quite a few doors.

It’s actually kind of too bad you can’t really delve into Browserquest, but it seems that, if this is the baseline for browser-based MMOs in the future, things should be interesting.